The Concrete River

Author : Luis J. Rodríguez
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781453259092

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The Concrete River by Luis J. Rodríguez Pdf

DIVDIVA mesmerizing collection of poems of urban pain and immigrant alienation, humming with a current of genuine beauty and the pulse of life/divDIV/divDIVThe Concrete River’s poems are dispatches from city corners that CNN viewers never see, that few dare visit, and that fewer still manage to escape. Rodríguez sings corridos of barrios and busted Chicanos trying to make it in L.A. and Chicago, from ballads of Watts’s broken glass to blues played alongside a tequila bottle under an elevated train. But the music also captures moments of true beauty amid the hard urban surfaces, where the cries of the ’hood “deliver sacrifices / of sound and flesh, / as a mother’s milk flows,” while love and community offer renewed hope./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Luis J. Rodríguez including rare images from the author’s personal collection./divDIV /div/div

Author : Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0605968489

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Concrete River by Luis J. Rodriguez Pdf

Author : John Shannon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Liffey, Jack (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 193364821X

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The Concrete River by John Shannon Pdf

"John Shannon's literary mysteries deserve a much wider audience. They are tough, wry, graceful, humane, deeply engaged with the world. The Jack Liffey series is a major re-imagining of Los Angeles."-Los Angeles Times Book Review? Jack Liffey's lost everything: his job, his lovely wife, his daughter. His first case as a Los Angeles child-finder becomes a fight for redemption and for life itself, as he's swept into a world gone mad around him.

Author : Yvonne Pearson,Kathleen Petelinsek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Concrete poetry
ISBN : 1631436945

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Concrete Poems by Yvonne Pearson,Kathleen Petelinsek Pdf

"Presents an overview of concrete poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use concrete poems to express ideas"--Publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031027675

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Upper Baker Lake, Skagit River Basin, Additional Flood Control, Concrete by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tupac Shakur
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780671028459

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The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur Pdf

A collection of verse by the late hip-hop star Tupac Shakur includes more than one hundred poems confronting such wide-ranging topics as poverty, motherhood, Van Gogh, and Mandela.

Author : John Shannon
Publisher : West Coast Crime
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0963905058

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The Concrete River by John Shannon Pdf

When a Mexican woman asks Jack Liffey to find her daughter, he's sucked into a violent world of developers and LA politicos where nothing is what it seems. His search becomes a fight for redemption and for life itself in a world gone mad around him.

Author : Thomas J. Campanella
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781568989686

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The Concrete Dragon by Thomas J. Campanella Pdf

Discusses the staggering urban growth taking place in China, exploring the factors and inspirations behind it, the speed of urban migration, and how the resulting changes will affect the country and the world.

Author : Ada Limón
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781571318183

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Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón Pdf

“A wonderful book” from the National Book Award for Poetry finalist that explores themes of dislocation and danger (Bob Hicok, author of Red Rover, Red Rover). The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family’s roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion—both toward and away from us—and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Ada Limón reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage cans they’ve crawled into. In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it “keep[s] opening before us,” for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual, and each person’s mouth “is the same / mouth as everyone’s, all trying to say the same thing.” For Limón, it’s the saying—individual and collective—that transforms each of us into “a wound overcome by wonder,” that allows “the wind itself” to be our “own wild whisper.” “Through the steamy, thorny undergrowth, up through the cold concrete, under the swift river, Limon soars and twirls like a bird, high on heart.” —Jennifer L. Knox, author of Crushing It

Author : Christopher Sneddon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226284453

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Concrete Revolution by Christopher Sneddon Pdf

Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of modern dams, we know far less about their political origins and ramifications. In Concrete Revolution, Christopher Sneddon offers a corrective: a compelling historical account of the US Bureau of Reclamation’s contributions to dam technology, Cold War politics, and the social and environmental adversity perpetuated by the US government in its pursuit of economic growth and geopolitical power. Founded in 1902, the Bureau became enmeshed in the US State Department’s push for geopolitical power following World War II, a response to the Soviet Union’s increasing global sway. By offering technical and water resource management advice to the world’s underdeveloped regions, the Bureau found that it could not only provide them with economic assistance and the United States with investment opportunities, but also forge alliances and shore up a country’s global standing in the face of burgeoning communist influence. Drawing on a number of international case studies—from the Bureau’s early forays into overseas development and the launch of its Foreign Activities Office in 1950 to the Blue Nile investigation in Ethiopia—Concrete Revolution offers insights into this historic damming boom, with vital implications for the present. If, Sneddon argues, we can understand dams as both technical and political objects rather than instruments of impartial science, we can better participate in current debates about large dams and river basin planning.

Author : Diane Setterfield
Publisher : Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743298087

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Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield Pdf

From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “eerie and fascinating” (USA TODAY) The Thirteenth Tale comes a “swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful” (Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe) novel about how we explain the world to ourselves, ourselves to others, and the meaning of our lives in a universe that remains impenetrably mysterious. On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can science provide an explanation? These questions have many answers, some of them quite dark indeed. Those who dwell on the river bank apply all their ingenuity to solving the puzzle of the girl who died and lived again, yet as the days pass the mystery only deepens. The child herself is mute and unable to answer the essential questions: Who is she? Where did she come from? And to whom does she belong? But answers proliferate nonetheless. Three families are keen to claim her. A wealthy young mother knows the girl is her kidnapped daughter, missing for two years. A farming family reeling from the discovery of their son’s secret liaison stand ready to welcome their granddaughter. The parson’s housekeeper, humble and isolated, sees in the child the image of her younger sister. But the return of a lost child is not without complications and no matter how heartbreaking the past losses, no matter how precious the child herself, this girl cannot be everyone’s. Each family has mysteries of its own, and many secrets must be revealed before the girl’s identity can be known. Once Upon a River is a glorious tapestry of a book that combines folklore and science, magic and myth. Suspenseful, romantic, and richly atmospheric, this is “a beguiling tale, full of twists and turns like the river at its heart, and just as rich and intriguing” (M.L. Stedman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans).

Author : Linda Rui Feng
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982129453

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Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls “one of the most beautiful debuts I’ve read in years.” How many times in life can we start over without losing ourselves? In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie’s growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her family’s shared future. What Junie doesn’t know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country, each holding close private tragedies and histories from the tumultuous years of their youth during China’s Cultural Revolution. While Momo grapples anew with his deferred musical ambitions and dreams for Junie’s future in America, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie’s birthday—even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light. “A beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration, and most of all, love,” (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) Swimming Back to Trout River weaves together the stories of Junie, Momo, Cassia, and Dawn—a talented violinist from Momo’s past—while depicting their heartbreak and resilience, tenderly revealing the hope, compromises, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants.

Author : Griselda Suárez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 159924425X

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Concrete River Boulevard by Griselda Suárez Pdf

Author : Amanda Jernigan
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781926845616

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Groundwork by Amanda Jernigan Pdf

The three sequences of Groundwork comprise a sophisticated reworking of European myth on the order of Yeats’s The Tower. The first is situated by an archaeological dig in modern-day Tunisia, the second by the Garden of Eden, the third by the waters and islands of Homer’s Odyssey. Together they form a devastating critique of contemporary aesthetics. Few poets today are versed in the archetypes that inform the European tradition, and even fewer can manipulate them with the grace of Amanda Jernigan. With rivers of exquisite prosody and a panoramic intellectual scope, her Groundwork has recharted the poetic landscape – and by doing so, has changed it forever.

Author : Mary Soderstrom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0889777861

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Concrete by Mary Soderstrom Pdf

Imagine what the world would be like without concrete: there'd be no high-rises, no grand irrigation projects, no lettuce from southern climes in the winter, no multi-lane highways crisscrossing continents, a shortage of electricity, more mud in some places, more solitude in others. But because of the fossil fuels and other resources required to make concrete, there also would be less CO2 in the atmosphere and less dramatic climate change. In Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future, Soderstrom tells the story of concrete's glorious past, extravagant present, and uncertain future with careful research, lively anecdotes, and thoughtful reflection. The framework for this exploration is one the Romans--famous for concrete structures that are still strong--would understand: the four elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air. "[For] those of us who are thinking about, and educating for, deep cultural change, . . . for those of us that care about what it means to be good, in the deepest sense; to participants in an earth-system that is failing at human hands, in the context of recognizing the repercussions of the Anthropocene." --Laura Sewall, author of Sight and Sensibility: The Ecopsychology of Perception